On February 15, 2004 16:09, Kevin Everets wrote: > Under X-windows, there is a more intuitive setup but it is not > (often) the default. First, you assign some key to be your > "Multi_key", which is often assigned to be the right Alt key. To do > so, create a file called "multikey.map" which contains just the line: > > keycode 113 = Multi_key > > then, run "xmodmap multikey.map" to make this compose key active. > > Once that's done, you can just hit Right-Alt, then an accent (such as > "'"), then the letter (such as e) to get something like ?? (which > might show up as an "e" with an accent on it).
Merci pour ton conseil. Įa marche ā merveille ---- mais pas tout ā fait. Tack för ditt förslag. Det fungerar nästan utmärkt. Thanks for the suggestion. It works superbly --- with only one small problem. My third language is Swedish and I haven't yet found the Scandinavian "å" --- "a-circle", which, in older texts, in sometimes printed as a double "aa".